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Life last week vs this week
My grandfather has rallied a bit. We don’t know if this is his last hurrah before the end or if he will continue to improve and get better and stick around for awhile yet. I am reminded that his mother, my Great Grandma Millie was notorious for doing this. There were many times the family raced toHe lives many states away and my parents flew out to be at his bedside on Friday. He has enjoyed their visit as have they. My mama hasn’t physically set eyes on her father in seven years so this was a good thing. They are visiting other family while they are there also.
We are dog-sitting my mom’s pampered pooch while they are gone. I am not a dog person so this is a real act of love. The kids love the dog so it’s a daily bonanza party for them.
We scraped my parents’ house on Saturday. We are painting their house as a combined birthday gift for them. We hope to be priming it this week and possibly painting this coming Saturday.
Things are good. God is good.
The kiddos homeschool group program was wonderful. And Sunday- the big honor our graduating seniors Sunday went very VERY well. It took a lot of work and prep and more work and a lot of prayer and it went well. I am now enjoying my “just desserts” – real desserts—the leftovers given to me by the caterer (a dear friend and retired homeschooler). Chocolate red velvet cake with chocolate chip cream cheese filling and cream cheese icing, bread pudding, raspberry fluff and chocolate peanut butter bar cookies. Oh, yeah—yummo!! My “just desserts”. Plus some other yummy leftovers. We’ll be eating very well this week. And very cheaply.
I am glad that busy-ness is behind me. This week will seem quiet and restful in comparison. Good.
On the financial front—we continue to hope for some kind of negotiation with a creditor. We have to go through the debt counseling agency, which means that I have to trust them to actually negotiate and I find I’m having a hard time doing that. BUT I have placed my trust in the Lord- to lead and guide us and I have to believe that He is in charge of it all and will see us through.
He has seen us through so much already. He holds us in the palm of His hand. Never once has He dropped us or left us--- always, always He has seen us through. Sometimes it has been very tight and sometimes it’s been “just in the nick of time” but always ALWAYS God holds us and sees us through.
With that track record, I must continue to believe that He will guide us through this current difficulty.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we shall soon see them in their proper figures. ---- Joseph Addison.
Patience—being still. Be Still. God continues to ask me to BE STILL and know. Be still and trust.
And so I do.
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